Herself: ''She felt drunk and swaddled, with hands and limbs and hair and voices weaving together. Surrounded by ''all her mothers,'' Novena is woozy with wine and womanhood she feels like part of the fabric a familiar scene of women around a kitchen table - brings a whiff of déjà vu. Secondhand Souls: A Novel Show full title Written by Christopher Moore Narrated by Fisher Stevens 4.5 / 5 ( 115 ratings ) About this audiobook In San Francisco, the souls of the dead are mysteriously disappearingand you know that can’t be goodin New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore’s delightfully funny sequel to A Dirty Job. Herself sliding into an actual memory of another era for fleeting instants, as if she had inhabited that time herself.'' Yet Shea's evocations of the secret souls of things grow tiring, and even the ending She could run a finger down the rows and racks and pull out something. In a vintage clothing shop called the God of Sand, where she ''could touch a garment and feel something else under its breath. Escaping Nile Bay - but not the ghost of Zan - Novena finds fulfillment living with her Aunt Annaluna and working Later, when one of them, Zan, drives into a river with Novena'sįriend and his body is never found, this airy, precious tale of small-town magic realism begins to wear thin. Up with her Aunt Elegia (the names here are all vaguely Latin, although the book is set in an American town named Nile Bay) and her four tormenting male cousins. After her mother dies, a young girl named Novena discovers that her old outfits contain ''fragments of her own memories, her own history, her own past.'' Novena grows Ike the evocative kitchen smells in Laura Esquivel's ''Like Water for Chocolate,'' the castoff clothes in Sandra Shea'sįirst novel are imbued with magic.
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